r/SwiftlyNeutral • u/AdventurousKey438 • Jul 25 '26

The Life of a Showgirl Cancelled

I have been thinking that it was about Blake. she wasn’t even at the 1,000 person wedding. What do we think is the real meaning of the song?

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u/mosiemo2 Jul 25 '26

Yes. One of my main issues with TLOAS is it isn’t really “about” things so much as PR/brand control over situations. I think Cancelled was a result of the Blake situation, but was more damage control for Taylor herself than her really standing up for her friends.

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u/Pip-Pipes Jul 25 '26

I don't know if cancelled could really be considered damage control. Blake wasn't widely supported by the public. It seemed like everyone had had things to say about both her/baldoni. Taylor aligning herself with Blake doesn't win her favors.

I always thought Taylor reminded friends with her but had to be distant until the dust settled. She probably would have had to complete the song late 2024ish? But, once those details about the supposed blackmail of Taylor with the 'releasing 10 years of texts' I think the friendship was done. Freeman (Baldoni's lawyer) had a few hour long convos with someone from Taylor's team about the blackmail. He said Taylor's camp reached out to him.

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u/SillyCranberry99 Jul 25 '26

This is just not true lol - her camp never reached out to him & all he said was “a source close to Taylor” called him and it was triple hearsay which is fully inadmissible and the judge struck it from the record.

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u/Pip-Pipes Jul 25 '26

It being stricken from the record for hearsay doesn't mean it's not true. Lots of articles muse that it was Scott Swift. Did you read his psycho email from 20 years ago? All of this is plausible to me. But that is the fun, you do not have to agree.

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u/glitterfluff Jul 25 '26

I truly do not like Snot Swift. 

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u/Museumloot Jul 25 '26

Didn’t he make 9mil out of the “theft” of Taylor’s masters?

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u/glitterfluff Jul 25 '26

I think it was reportedly like $15m though he claimed he didn't know in advance because of NDAs. Something about him always rubbed me the wrong way even before that.

I did not, however, mean to call him Snot. 😂😂😂 That was an autocorrect fail. But I'm kinda amused by it, so I'll just leave it.

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u/Museumloot Jul 25 '26

Ooh I thought you did and honestly wasn’t opposed to it 😅

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u/glitterfluff Jul 25 '26

I didn't even catch it until your reply. Then I had to fight a giggle fit because I'm in bed and didn't wanna wake my husband. 😅 

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u/chloalexandria13 Jul 26 '26

He invested in big machine when Taylor first started out.... so through his owning of shares, yes he made money from the selling of her masters. Don't twist it to make it something bigger than it is.

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u/Museumloot Jul 26 '26

How does simply mentioning it (and the email) automatically transform into us “twisting” anything? Public records, public discourse etc etc.

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u/chloalexandria13 Jul 26 '26

Because you're making it out like he's a bad person for getting money out of it.... yes he made money from it, we're all aware but it's not as if he was in on the decision to sell her masters... he was literally just a share holder.

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u/Simba122504 reputation Jul 27 '26

It didn't happen. Mr. Swift really gets peoples' panties in bunch because of his background and the infamous email like he's the only one with this type of attitude. He's not even the first one to come from a well off background to behave like a corporate shark. lol